Maurice Sendak Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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We shred every day.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
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I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.
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Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.
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Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?
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The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.
